by Becky Crabtree | Oct 4, 2016 | Drunk on Peace and Quiet
We had a great vendor spot at the WV Water Festival on August 5, but it was not meant to be – true to the Festival’s name, it poured rain. Like they say, some you win and some you lose and some get rained out! Then we had a family emergency call when the...
by Becky Crabtree | Oct 4, 2016 | Farm Living
CNN [Chicken News Network] July 4: Lindside, WV. On an evening when loud noises and firecrackers are the norm, a Lindside man added to the festivities by screaming and jumping across a field at twilight. Roger Crabtree, 63, intended to gather eggs from a hidden...
by Becky Crabtree | Jul 2, 2016 | Sundry Notes
Mud and loss. Bodies strewn on the Greenbrier’s golf course. Unimaginable horror stories of the sounds of the night it rained 9 inches. Houses floating away. Houses burning. West Virginians with nothing but the clothes they wear and whatever was in their...
by Becky Crabtree | Jun 16, 2016 | Drunk on Peace and Quiet, Sundry Notes
Something about long, warm summer days invites me to write. I am imagining and writing about my main character, Stella, in her life with new hubby, Jonas. In fact, I often wonder what Stella would think about things that I see in my world. I think she would be...
by Becky Crabtree | May 20, 2016 | Drunk on Peace and Quiet
An email arrived Monday from publisher extraordinaire, Connie Taylor at Fathom Publishing, with spectacular news: Drunk on Peace and Quiet earned a national award! We are the proud recipients of an Eric Hoffer Honorable Mention for ebook fiction by a small press. I am...
by Becky Crabtree | May 16, 2016 | Sundry Notes
Since my last post, I’ve finished two months of substitute teaching in a wonderful 8th grade LA classroom, got an elementary school Field Day planned (with a lot of help), saw a DAR grant though until it was finished – a fence now surrounds, an old, remote...
by Becky Crabtree | Apr 11, 2016 | Drunk on Peace and Quiet
We spent the weekend near Asheville at the Western North Carolina Agricultural Center selling a few books, meeting delightful people, and learning cool stuff. I sold a book to a lady named Cinnamon Sky, talked to another lady whose sister was an ER doctor in Barrow,...
by Becky Crabtree | Mar 31, 2016 | Dr. Dickason
This week’s events have me fairly walking on air. Pharell’s “Happy” song is running through my head as is the “Be Happy” tune long ago sung by Bobby McFerrin. The world smells like wildflowers and mown grass and if the wind would...
by Becky Crabtree | Mar 23, 2016 | Farm Living
This has been a busy week – eight lambs! Two ewes had four each, but one of the runts died and the other runt was rejected by her tired mama. Then another ewe delivered two but one died so she took the little rejected runt for her own (thank goodness!). There...
by Becky Crabtree | Mar 15, 2016 | Alaska Hoops Coach
A friend in the Virginia Alpha Delta Kappa Sorority invited me to speak about Alaska last week. My presentation was to take 20 minutes or so and the wonderful group of women were so attentive that I didn’t even look at the clock and yakked on for 50 minutes....
by Becky Crabtree | Mar 9, 2016 | Drunk on Peace and Quiet
The small, author-owned business which sells my books is called Naku Books. It is licensed to do business in West Virginia and has a brand new logo. Our next public excursion is to the Mother Earth News Fair on April 9-10 at Fletcher, NC. So come and...
by Becky Crabtree | Mar 5, 2016 | Dr. Dickason
The rough version of a biography of Dr. Henry Lake Dickason is finished! His life is inspirational. Writing it has consumed me in recent weeks and taught me so much about the realities of life on Peters Mountain. It will need tweaked and polished a hundred times...
